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THE RELEASE OF THE KNOWN
DAY TWO (CONTINUED)
Now, ask yourselves these questions: “Am I willing to be who I am at the cost of the old? Am I willing to receive myself as I have always been in the Upper Room? Am I willing to understand myself beyond the obligations I have incurred in this lifetime as a free woman, as a free man, who is choosing the experience that she partakes in here?”
The dominion you have been given must be comprehended by you. Too many of you like to think that things happen at you. “He did this thing to me.” “She took away my will.” “I wasn’t consulted.” “I didn’t confirm.” “I certainly didn’t agree.” In some ways, this may be so. But until you understand that you are authoring your experiences here for the purpose of learning and evolution, you are going to conceive of the self as a victim of experience. And, as we have stated prior1, you cannot be a master and a victim at the same time.
Things happen in a life that we do not choose consciously, but everything that you experience in a life, like it or not, agree with it or not, has been agreed to you at a level of co-resonance. Agreed to is accurate. You agree to your experience on this plane, and, when you live a life in confirmation of the expected world, the world you expect to see outside your window each day, you will claim the gift of coherence with that world. You are in vibratory accord or coherence with everything you witness or see and can even imagine. Because your alignment is operating in this way, each thing you claim becomes opportunity if you wish to see it this way. The small self does not wish to know this. She would seek to confirm her experience through the lens of agreement of what she wants to know or have confirmed. “My husband the philanderer, how did I choose that?” “My child the drug addict, I certainly didn’t choose that.” No, you didn’t, but you are in energetic accord to those things—a-c-c-o-r-d, a-c-h-o-r-d as on a piano—and, because you are in accord, what you claim is operating in coherence, in some way, with what you have chosen to experience or learn.
Now, if you understand that opportunity comes in very different ways, that every opportunity may not look like one, but in fact is the gift of progression, you will begin to perceive your life in some ways as a series or sequence of opportunities. If you dismantle the structure of the small self—and by this we simply mean understand it for what it is, a confabulation of ideas, things, ways of being known, things that have been agreed to—you can also understand that what lies beneath that is the essence of your being.
When a chord is played on a piano, several notes are played at once to bring a desired resonance or tone. The claim “I know who I am” is a note on a piano, or a note sung by you in energetic accord; the claim “I know what I am,” again in energetic accord, a note upon the piano or sung; “I know how I serve,” again a note in energetic accord or sung; “I am free, I am free, I am free,” again a note in energetic accord or sung. As those notes are played in simultaneity, they are expressed as you. Each note has meaning, may be played independently, may be sung independently, but when they are all played at once the vibration or tone is rather different.
He interrupts again. “But you say in truth. ‘I know who I am in truth, what I am in truth, how I serve in truth.’ What is the meaning of that?” Truth is in some ways the field that is being claimed, or, if you wish, the keyboard that the notes are played in. In the field of truth, what is not true cannot exist, and this would include your ideas of who and what you think you are that you would seek issuance of in the manifest world. As you move beyond the old and claim the new, you begin to have the opportunity of seeing the affect—with an “a”—of these claims upon the physical realm.
“Now how does that work?” he asks. When a chord is struck, the resonance of the chord is in vibration and is, in fact, informing everything that it touches. If we were to sing to you now without language, but in tone, the vibration of voice would instill within you in the field you hold, even in the body, the texture and feeling of the sound. When the chord is played through invocation or speech—“I know who I am in truth, I know what I am in truth, I know how I serve in truth”—the claim is made in the resonant field, the chord struck, the bells rung, and the implicit action of the tone in significance is to align and attune you to the meaning of these claims. As what is true is always true—the claim “I know who I am” as an aspect of the Divine, which is centered in the heart center as an invocation; “I know what I am in truth,” which means the manifest of the Divine, the Divine in manifestation as what you are, which is experienced in the body; and the claim “I know how I serve,” again the expression of the Divine, which is experienced in the energetic field—as these things are sung or stated or claimed, you strike the chord that actually calls forth the action of the Divine upon the manifest world.
Now, the divine principle, which we call the Christ or the aspect of the Creator that can be realized in form, is the principle here that operates in vibration. The claim “I know who I am” is an invocation of the Christ, True Self, Divine Self, Eternal Self, whatever you wish to call it; “what,” the invocation of the manifest Divine as the what that you are. And your service, we have to suggest, which is being at this tone or level of vibration, calls the principle of the Christ to the manifest world for the purpose of reclaiming it in the higher octave.
Dominion, we have to say, is the realization that everything you choose, by agreement or by vibratory accord, is made manifest in this field, this collective field that you share. When you begin to operate as the True Self and use the directives that we teach you, you become, in some ways, the manifest Divine. And by manifest we mean realized Divine in form. Unless you have claimed form in the equation of the Divine, you operate in separation. The example would be that the body that you have taken, in its divine expression, operates in resonance or vibrational accord with everything else that exists in a like form, which means all else in manifestation. How a world is made new is through the transmission of the Divine Self into the manifest plane. As the Divine claims the Divine in all it sees or witnesses, and the Divine as you is what we are speaking to, the form that you see, the physical realm that you experience, is reinterpreted, re-known, re-conceived, reclaimed as the Divine that is present and inherent in all things. If you can imagine a flower that has never opened, and you call the flower rose, the petals unfurl and the rose appears. Imagine that God itself is present in every human being, in everything you can see, conceive of, or imagine. The presence of the Divine, once claimed, calls into manifestation the inherent divinity in this thing you perceive, and claims it in vibrational accord to the Divine Self, who has claimed it in witness. This is how a world is made new.
Now, in prior teachings, we explained to you that when you claim the Divine in anything or anyone, utilizing the words “I know what you are,” which simply means the recognition of the Divine in form as what, the one you claim this for, or the thing you may claim it to, will actually respond in an energetic vibratory echo that may be experienced by you. In other words, when you claim a thing as divine and realize the divinity which is inherent in it—and understand that to realize means to know—the thing will respond. What you bless, blesses you in return.
Now, the resonance of your field is present no matter what you think. You don’t have to try to be the Divine Self because the Divine Self as you is who you truly are. But your realization or knowing of this is what claims you in participation to the action of the Divine—the Word, if you wish—that is present in all things. As you have decided to come forth individually and collectively to claim your inherent divinity, which means being as the Divine Self, how you be informs the structures of the world that you have existed in. If you can understand that the Divine as you in its expression is what transforms your world, you will stop waiting for a savior to show up in a cloud and do it for you. The Christ has come as each human being who aligns to it, and you don’t need to call it Christ because the Divine knows no name and may be called any name and may be recognized as such.
Copyright © 2019 by Paul Selig
Foreword copyright © 2019 by Aubrey Marcus